The Atlantic looks at building a health-care system that recognizes the link between mental and physical health.
Harrington Family Health Center executive director, Lee Umphrey is quoted in the article
Harrington provides not only primary care but also mental-health care, dentistry, podiatry, and wellness and prevention services. “The first step in becoming a PCMH was increasing our focus on integration,” says Umphrey. “If a patient comes in and is in mental distress, we have a process internally so that we have a warm handoff to the mental-health department.”
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